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M 2.4mb_lg

10 km WSW of Cleburne, Texas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Johnson County 14 kmSomervell County 28 kmHood County 34 kmBosque County 48 kmHill County 50 kmTarrant County 54 kmParker County 59 kmEllis County 65 kmErath County 69 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
6 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Johnson County, 14 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2910 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 6 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 32.3159, -97.4919. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Johnson County, TX 14 km (9 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Johnson County
Somervell County, TX 28 km (18 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Somervell County
Hood County, TX 34 km (21 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Hood County
Bosque County, TX 48 km (30 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Bosque County
Hill County, TX 50 km (31 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hill County
Tarrant County, TX 54 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Tarrant County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

11 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 3.1 7 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
  2. 3.2 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  3. 2.3 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  4. 1.8 5 km N of Itasca, Texas
  5. 1.6 6 km N of Itasca, Texas
  6. 1.5 5 km S of Grandview, Texas
  7. 2.4 2 km SSW of Joshua, Texas
  8. 1.8 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  9. 3.2 8 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
  10. 2.5 4 km SSE of Rendon, Texas
  11. 2.3 3 km SSE of Fort Worth, Texas

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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